new (or at least different) problem with EQ and Vista

> my KEYBOARD does not work correctly in Everquest.. yeah, i had the usual
> liteny of problems at the start... setting compat w/ xpsp2, run as admin,
> disable that display thing, etc. but several of my punctuation keys work just
> fine everywhere BUT in EQ..
> namely: `~'"{[}]|\+=
>
> any ideas how to fix this?
>
> also, i get dropped from the game randomly for no aparrent reason...
> sometimes to server select, sometimes to login... there is no rhyme or reason
> to it.. it happens instantly.
>
> thanks in advance.